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Pymble: Harper Collins Publishers, 2001. Octavo, paperback, photographs. The astonishing Elephant is an unabashed celebration of these mysterious creatures, whose closest living relatives are the dugong and the hyrax. While the author admits elephants can pose particular dangers to unwary humans (she recounts tales of circus trainers of her acquaintance... More about The astonishing elephant

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat... More about Elephants on the edge: what animals teach us about humanity

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat... More about Elephants on the edge: what animals teach us about humanity

New York: Oxford University Press, (2006. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This volume comprises the autobiographical works of three men who had a special relationship with the Indian jungles - Jim Corbett, Verrier Elwin and Salim Ali.More about Lives in the wilderness

India: Natraj Publishers, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Tiger has always been associated with India as hunting the tiger was the acme of sport hunting. Though focused on hunting, considerable data is available on its natural history from observant hunters who had to study the habits and behaviour of... More about The Tiger in India: a natural history

Washington DC: Island Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, An exhilarating journey to some of the world's most stunning locales, led by one of conservation's key scientists. In 1972, Eric Dinerstein was in film school at Northwestern University, with few thoughts of nature, let alone tiger-filled jungles at the base of the... More about Tigerland and other unintended destinations

London: Christopher Helm, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, colour photographs. This handy guide covering just southern India uses updated versions of the superb plates from the Birds of the Indian subcontinent. These are accompanied by succinct text highlighting identification, voice, habitat, altitudinal range, distribution and status. The text is on... More about Field guide to the birds of southern India

Munich: Bucher Verlag, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book offers an exciting expedition to the Bandhagarh Tiger Reserve in the heart of India. The authors show you the elusive tigers of India as few people have ever seen them. The most powerful predatory cat in the world rules the... More about The eyes of the jungle

London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2006. Large octavo, photographs, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. A complete guide to the raptors of the Indian subcontinent. Lavishly illustrated with 24 new plates and around 600 photographs, each species is shown in all usual plumage forms, in flight and at rest... More about Birds of prey of the Indian subcontinent